puckish
/ˈpʌkɪʃ/
"puckish" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“puckish” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having a tendency to play tricks on people or tease people by making silly jokes about them; mischievous.
Corpus desk
Index EN-puckish · puckish · English
puckish · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puckish |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈpʌkɪʃ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “puckish” in English
Rare enough to double-check
puckish is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈpʌkɪʃ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Having a tendency to play tricks on people or tease people by making silly jokes about them; mischievous.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for puckish, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Puck + -ish, after the mischievous fairy in English folklore who is also a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The correct English form is puckish, spelled P-U-C-K-I-S-H.
Definition
- 1Having a tendency to play tricks on people or tease people by making silly jokes about them; mischievous.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how puckish appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He has a puckish sense of humor.
She has a puckish attitude.
Etymology
From Puck + -ish, after the mischievous fairy in English folklore who is also a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.